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NZ (FRI): Latest cyclone tracking as Vaianu expected to zip over North Island

Cyclone Vaianu will cross the North Island rapidly on Sunday, making landfall somewhere around Auckland to Coromandel Peninsula during the middle of the day. Just 24 hours after that, the storm is likely to be centred south-east of Dune...

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NZ (THU): Latest on Cyclone Vaianu, Sunday landfall in North Island

Severe weather is expected to develop as early as Saturday in the upper North Island ahead of Cyclone Vaianu, which…

Tropical Cyclone Vaianu’s track directly into NZ this weekend

Localised heavy rain is still affecting some parts of NZ today, seperate to the tropical cyclone which is tracking directly…

Tropical Cyclone VAIANU: Fiji then NZ

*Published Tuesday AM* Fiji is being affected today by offshore Severe Tropical Cyclone Vaianu and NZ has the chance of…

NZ: Bit of an unsettled week, but a tropical cyclone this weekend

Wind and rain affects a number of regions as we kick off this week as strong high pressure departs to…

NZ Easter Weather Update + monitoring the tropics for storm potential

High pressure smothers New Zealand as we head into the long weekend bringing mostly dry weather and light winds, with…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 12:20am on Sat 11 April 2026
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ClimateWatch: NOVEMBER’s outlook as high pressure lifts in NZ, low pressure grows in Oz.

In our monthly “ClimateWatch” forecast the first week of November in NZ looks settled and mostly dry, while Australia and…

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WeatherWatchTV on YouTube climbs over 100K subscribers, joins global club of just 0.7%

WeatherWatchTV now has over 100,000 subscribers, larger than Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology and far exceeding the NZ Government’s Niwa Weather…

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Top 10 NZ Weather MythBusters! (Even we were surprised at some of the answers!)

REPOST from our Education pages — Can you get sunburnt on a cloudy day? Do highs always bring sunny weather?…

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